Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 12
This is a list of selected May 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Konrad Zuse in 1992 (requires undeletion)
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Coppergate Helmet
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Nurses Day; | refimprove |
| 1364 – King Casimir III of Poland issued a royal charter to establish Jagiellonian University, the nation's oldest university. | alumni list |
| 1551 – The National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru. | refimprove section |
| 1865 – In the last major clash of arms of the American Civil War, the Union Army engaged the Confederates along the banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas. | refimprove section |
| 1885 – The Provisional Government of Saskatchewan was decisively defeated at the Battle of Batoche, which led to the end of the North-West Rebellion three days later. | refimprove section |
| 1926 – The crew of the airship Norge, led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the North Pole. | unreferenced section |
| 1926 – The Trades Union Congress, a federation of British trade unions, announced that it would end its week-long general strike "in defence of [coal] miners' wages and hours". | needs more footnotes |
| 1958 – Canada and the United States signed a formal agreement establishing the North American Air Defense Command to provide aerospace warning and defense for North America. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – An earthquake registering approximately 8.0 Ms struck the Chinese province of Sichuan, killing at least 69,000 people, injuring at least 374,000, and leaving at least 4.8 million others homeless. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – On arrival at Tripoli International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed into the ground at a speed of 262 kn (485 km/h; 302 mph) and exploded, killing all but one of the 304 people on board. | needs rewrite |
| Murad Mirza |d|1599| | date of death not referenced, and I can't find any sources beyond "May 1599" |
| Otto Frank |b|1889| | too much of the article is unreferenced |
Eligible
- 907 – Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai to abdicate, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three centuries of ruling China.
- 1510 – Zhu Zhifan, the Prince of Anhua (in modern Shaanxi, China), began an unsuccessful rebellion against the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
- 1846 – The Donner Party, an American pioneer group which became known for resorting to cannibalism when they became trapped in the Sierra Nevada, left Independence, Missouri, for California.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Confederates were routed in the Battle of Raymond, a small battle that had an inordinately large impact on the Vicksburg Campaign.
- 1888 – North Borneo was established as a British protectorate.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launched a major offensive in eastern Ukraine, but were encircled and destroyed by German troops two weeks later.
- 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the critically acclaimed and widely influential debut album Are You Experienced.
- 1968 – The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War for the Australian Army.
- 1975 – The Cambodian navy seized the American container ship SS Mayaguez in what they claimed to be Cambodian territorial waters.
- 1982 – The Coppergate Helmet, the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered.
- 1982 – Juan María Fernández y Krohn attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1998 – Four students were shot and killed by Indonesian soldiers at Trisakti University in Jakarta, which led to widespread riots and eventually the resignation of President Suharto nine days later.
- 2006 – A cartoon that allegedly compared Iranian Azeris to cockroaches was published in a magazine, sparking riots throughout the country.
- Born/died this day: | Fergus of Galloway |d|1161| Pompeo Colonna |b|1479| Johann Baptist Wanhal |b|1739| Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange |d|1745| Justus von Liebig |b|1803| Alexander Esenin-Volpin |b|1924| Yogi Berra |b|1925| Maryam Mirzakhani |b|1977| Malin Åkerman |b|1978
Notes
- Benty Grange helmet appears on May 3, so Coppergate helmet should not appear in the same year
- Beatification of Pope John Paul II appears on May 9 and Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II appears on May 13, so Juan María Fernández y Krohn should not appear in the same year
Replica of the Z3
- 1588 – Catholic Parisians under Henry I, Duke of Guise, protested the moderate policies of Henry III of France.
- 1881 – Under threat of invasion, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, Bey of Tunis, signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French protectorate.
- 1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3 (replica pictured), the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
- 2008 – In Postville, Iowa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest-ever raid of a workplace and arrested nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
- Æthelhard (d. 805)
- Katharine Hepburn (b. 1907)
- Benjamin Sheares (d. 1981)